How does the teen pregnancy rate in the
United States compare with those in Europe?

In the United States the rate of teen pregnancy is about
48 teens girls for every 1000 young women. The rates for
France are 17 out of 1000 teen girls, 14 out of 1000 teen
girls in Germany and 7 out of 1000 teen girls in the
Netherlands. In short, American teen girls are more likely
to have babies than teen girls in Europe.

Lynn Blinn Pike, Ph.D., Former Human
Development & Family Studies Specialist, College of Human
Environmental Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia